What is the definition of culture, and what are culture traits?
How does culture comprise the shared practices, technologies, attitudes, and behaviors transmitted by a society?
How do cultural landscapes reflect combinations of physical features, agricultural and industrial practices, religious and linguistic characteristics, and other expressions of culture?
How do regional patterns of language contribute to a sense of place?
Why might language be considered a centripetal and centrifugal force?
What are the different types of diffusion?
What are the effects of the diffusion of culture?
How can interactions between and among cultural traits and larger global forces lead to new forms of cultural expression?
Why are communication technologies important in terms of reshaping and accelerating interactions among people and changing cultural practices?
How do language families, languages, and dialects diffuse from cultural hearths?
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Define the characteristics, attitudes, and traits that influence geographers to study culture.
Describe the characteristics of cultural landscapes and explain how landscape features and land and resource use reflect cultural beliefs and identities.
Explain patterns and landscapes of language.
Define the types of diffusion.
Explain how historical processes impact current cultural patterns.
Explain how the process of diffusion results in changes to the cultural landscape.
Standards
SS.Geog4.a.h - Evaluate the effect of culture on a place over time.
SS.Geog4.a.h - Analyze how physical and human characteristics interact to give a place meaning and significance (e.g., Panama Canal) and shape culture.
SS.Geog4.a.h - Explain how and why place-based identities can shape events at various scales (e.g., neighborhood, regional identity).
SS.Geog4.a.h - Explain how and why people view places and regions differently as a function of their ideology, race, ethnicity, language, gender, age, religion, politics, social class, and economic status.
SS.Geog5.a.h - Analyze the intentional and unintentional spatial consequences of human actions on the environment at the local, state, tribal, regional, country, and world levels.